Roger Williams (born Louis Weertz, October 1, 1924), is an American popular music pianist. As of 2004, he had released 116 albums. Biography, He is the son of a Lutheran minister (Rev. Frederick J. Weertz) and a music teacher (Dorothea Bang Weertz), in Omaha, Nebraska, but before his first birthday the family moved to Des Moines, Iowa. He first played the piano at age three. In high school he became interested in boxing, mainly at his father's insistence, and only returned to music after breaking his nose s...